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" What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those... "
Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 49
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876
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An Elementary English Grammar: With Composition

Alma Blount, Clark Sutherland Northup - 1912 - 354 pages
...— IRVING. 28. I think they are trying to outwit Nature, who is sure to be cunninger than they. 29. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after one's own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence...
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Thoughts and After-thoughts

Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree - 1913 - 336 pages
...testimony. What must I do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the...world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after your own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence...
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English Prose: A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice of ...

Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 512 pages
...What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the 25 people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the...you know it. It is easy in the world to live after 30 the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in...
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The British Review: With which is Incorporated the Oxford ..., Volume 1

Richard Johnson Walker - 1913 - 592 pages
...lies the crisis, to maintain good manners and yet keep up the combat. " It is easy," says Emerson, " to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after one's own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the...
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Journal of Reconstructives, Dietetics and Alimentation, Volume 30

1914 - 640 pages
...Topics. WHAT I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the...world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence...
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News from the Duchy

Arthur Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1914 - 398 pages
...lies the crisis, to maintain good manners and yet keep up the combat. " It is easy," says Emerson, " to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after one's own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the...
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Emerson's Essays on Manners, Self-reliance, Compensation, Nature, Friendship

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1915 - 200 pages
...What I must do is all that concerns me ; not what the 20 people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the...what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy 25 in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ;...
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The Life and Letters of James Monroe Taylor: The Biography of an Educator

Elizabeth Hazelton Haight - 1919 - 442 pages
...responsibilities of the college. I I 8 -3 I KJ CHAPTER VI Work Resumed: The Call to Brown, 1896-1899 "It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great tnan is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the...
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Meyer Brothers Druggist, Volume 42

1921 - 1088 pages
...October-November. Rose Geranium : September-October. Cassie : October- November. Maintain Equilibrium It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it Js easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps...
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Essays and Poems of Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 pages
...is all that concerns me; not what the think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in illectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between...know what is your duty better than you know it. It is_eaj3y in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own;...
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